Tripod. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Tripod


Joint stools were then created; on three legs Upborne they stood—three legs upholding firm A massy slab, in fashion square or round. On such a stool immortal Alfred sat. Cowper.—The Sofa, Book I. Line 19.	1
As right as a trivet. Old Saying.	2
Disposed apart, Ulysses shares the treat! A trivet-table, and ignobler seat. Pope’s Odyssey.—Book XX. Line 322.	3
A three-legg’d table, O ye Fates! Francis’ Horace.—Book I. Sat. III. Line 18.	4
Doubt not her care should be To comb your noddle with a three-legg’d stool, And paint your face, and use you like a fool. Shakespeare.—Taming of the Shrew, Act I. Scene 1. (Katherine to Hortensio.)	5
When on my three-foot stool I sit. Shakespeare.—Cymbeline, Act III. Scene 3. (Belarius solus.)	6